Lafayette History Museum

Colorado

A small museum in a miner's cottage keeps the file on Lafayette's vampire.

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The museum keeps the story of the Lafayette Vampire. It attaches to a miner named Teodor Glava, buried in the Lafayette Cemetery in 1918. Staff there don't treat it as a ghost story to sell tickets. They read it as a mix of myth and local tradition, one that says something about a town built by immigrant coal miners. That reading was reported by a Denver television station in 2015. The rest of the collection is plainer and just as specific. Mining tools and helmets. A kitchen rebuilt the way one would have looked in the 1920s. Out on the grounds sit blacksmithing gear, farm equipment, and a vintage outhouse. There are scale models of notable Lafayette buildings put together by a man named Thomas Knill, shown alongside old fire insurance maps that let you watch the town change shape from above.

This is the first of 2 parts. The rest runs about 2 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.

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The museum also documents local folklore, including the legend of the "Lafayette Vampire", associated with miner Teodor Glava, who was buried in Lafayette Cemetery in 1918.

Written from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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